Klingende Vitrinen

Johann Bärenklau, Klingende Vitrinen, 2023,3-Kanal Sound installation © The artist

“Klingende Vitrinen” is a 3-channel sound installation, in which sound and music are brought to vibration and made audible on empty museum display cases using so-called exciters. The sounds originate from three museums of the SKD and are altered by time stretching, granular synthesis and transposition, which provides a reference to the change of objects over time.

Opening of the exhibition “We show what we (don’t) know” of the HGB Leipzig on 12.10.2023 at the Japanisches Palais of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Photo: Oliver Killig

Johann Bärenklau, born 1999 in Friedrichroda, grew up in Eisenach. Studied Fine Arts in Dresden since 2018, from 2019 to 2021 with Prof. Wilhelm Mundt, from 2021 at the HGB Leipzig, since 2022 with Prof. Clemens von Wedemeyer and Mareike Bernien, PhD. Since 2018 artistic practice with a focus on sound, graphics, and book art. Various projects and project participations in Berlin, Genoa, Paris and Riga, among others. Together with his partner Filip Januchowski, he also composes film scores.